EXCELSIOR
Description
- Creator
- Stanton, Samuel Ward, Attributed name
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Prints
- Description
- Sketch and notes on the Detroit River ferry EXCELSIOR
- Notes
- Illustration from Stanton, Samuel Ward, American Steam Vessels, 1895, page 229
- Inscriptions
Excelsior
Built 1876, at Detroit, Mich.
Hull, of Wood, constructed by the Detroit Dry Dock Co. Length over all 117 feet; breadth of beam 29 feet 4 inches; over guards 45 feet 6 inches; depth of hold 10 feet 10 inches.
Engine, vertical, double, non-condensing; two cylinders, each 22 inches in diamater with a piston stroke of 24 inches.
Boiler, one, 18 feet in length by 96 inches in diameter
Tonnage 229.39 Gross. 129.82 Net
Typical Detroit River ferry-boat; used on the route between Detroit and Windsor, also as an excursion boat to Belle Isle Park. Hull of great strength and built bluff to contend with ice.
- Publisher
- Smith & Stanton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date of Original
- 1895
- Date Of Event
- 1876
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 437
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Michigan, United States
Latitude: 42.33143 Longitude: -83.04575
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Contact
- Maritime History of the Great LakesEmail:walter@maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca
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